Best Crime Movies
Heists, mobsters, con artists and the detectives chasing them - crime movies are morality plays with better outfits. This ranking runs from noir landmarks to modern true-crime-adjacent thrillers, ordered by rating and popularity. See where to stream each one and keep score of what you've watched.
Dirty Tricks
2000
Nurse Betty
2000
Jennifer Eight
1992
The Tender Hook
2008
The Con
1998
The Don Is Dead
1973
The Black Panther
1977
Fighting Back
1982
Shanghai Grand
1996
Kuttey
2023
5lbs of Pressure
2024
The Rachels
2017
The Shadow
1994
Backfire
1950
Lights of New York
1928
P.J.
1968
A Man Betrayed
1941
Mean Johnny Barrows
1975
Kill Me Tomorrow
1957
Broadway
1929
Faces in the Crowd
2011
Night Patrol
1984
The Front Line
2009
Behind the High Wall
1956
Manhunt in the City
1975
Loot
1970
Thoongaavanam
2015
Dillinger
1945
Darkness of Man
2025
The Escapist
2002
Man in the Vault
1956
Caprice
1967
Dangerous Men
2023
Cry of a Prostitute
1974
Russian Roulette
1975
Equinox
1992
A Bullet for Joey
1955
Loose in the Trigger
1967
Where the Money Is
2000
Love Is a Gun
1994
Rampage
1987
Tequila Sunrise
1988
Golden Rendezvous
1977
Khali the Killer
2017
Three Days to Live
1958
Search for Beauty
1934
Nerariyan CBI
2005
5 Against the House
1955